Diaporama culturel du jour

22 septembre 2010

Diaporama culturel du jour

VILLENEUVE d´ASCQ.- French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand visits Lille's new modern art museum in the French northern city of Villeneuve d'Ascq (a Lille suburb), northern France, during its reopening ceremony, on 21 September 2010. The museum will reopen its doors to the public on September 25. EPA/SYLVAIN LEFEVRE.

DRESDEN.- The smallest Bible from the exhibition is presented on the thumb nail of an employee at the House of the Bible in Dresden, Germany, 21 September 2010. The miniature book contains the Lords Prayer in 12 different languages and is presented in the exhibition History and dissemination of the Bible. EPA/MATTHIAS HIEKEL.

LEIPZIG.- Karolin Koehler presents an old construction by Leonardo da Vinci at modell-hobby-spiel trade fair in Lepizig, Germany, 21 September 2010. Some 640 exhibitors present their products at the Exhibition for Model Building, Model Railways, Creative Arts and Play from 01 to 03 October. EPA/HENDRIKSCHMIDT.

NUREMBERG.- A woman examines a photograph at the exhibition The Hesselberg - Aholy place of the offenders, which takes place until 07 November in the Kunsthaus in Nuremberg, Germany, 21 September 2010. The black-and-white photograph captures a Nazi event on the Hesselberg. The exhibition deals with the locations Nazi history, as it hosted the Day of the Franks between 1933 and 1939, which was attended by about 100,000 people every year. EPA/DANIEL KARMANN.

LEIPZIG.- Visitors walk in front of a large photograph from the series The Fallby Gilles Peress during the exhibition And then the Wall was gone. Photographies by Gille Peressat Contemporary Foreum in Leipzig, Germany, 21 September 2010. The exhibition is on display from 22 September to 14 November on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the German Reunification. EPA/HEDNRIKSCHMIDT.

VILLENEUVE d´ASCQ.- an artwork by Daniel Buren entitled Cabane eclatee aux trois peaux dated 2000. This work is part of the exhibition inaugurating the new museum in Villeneuve dAscq, Lille Metropole, Musee dart moderne, dart contemporain et dart brut, near Lille. The museum opens to the public on 25 September 2010. It was inaugurated on 21 September 2010 by French Mayor of Lille Martine Aubry. EPA/LAM/VILLENEUVE DASCQ-P. BERNARD.

MADRID.- German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann poses for photographers as he presents his retrospective at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain, 21 September 2010. The exhibition, running from 22 September 2010 until 28 February 2011, features some one hundred of artworks by Feldman from the 1970s until today. EPA/JUANJO MARTIN.

SALAMANCA.- View taken on 21 September 2010 of the famous sculpture of an astronaut, which is carved into the facade of the Salamancas new Cathedral (1513-1733), in Salamanca, northern Spain, after one of the sculptures arms had disappeared. The police investigates the incident. The astronaut was carved in 1992 during the restoration works of the facade. EPA/J.M.GARCIA

LEIPZIG.- A woman eyes two large photographs from the series The Fallby Gilles Peress during the exhibition And then the Wall was gone. Photographies by Gille Peressat Contemporary Foreum in Leipzig, Germany, 21 September 2010. The exhibition is on display from 22 September to 14 November on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the German Reunification. EPA/HEDNRIKSCHMIDT.